Hippolais icterina

Rare Vagrant

2025 Dungeness BO, juvenile, 18th August.
North Foreland, male singing, 30th May.
2023 Bockhill, single bird, photographed 23rd August.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird, trapped and ringed, 19th August.
2022 Dungeness BO, single bird, trapped and ringed, 2nd June.
2021 Penshurst, single bird, 16th June.
2020 Leysdown-on-Sea, single bird, 31st August.
  Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped and ringed, 14th August, and retrapped again two days later.
2016

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped and ringed, 25th August.

2015 Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 7th September.
 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 31st August to 1st September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped and ringed, 14th August.

 

Bishopstone, a singing male, 28th June to 1st July.

2014

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 3rd September.

2013

The Cellars, Sandwich, single bird, 25th May.

 

Reculver, a male bird, 20th May.

2011

Sandwich Bay, adult female trapped and ringed, 27th July.

2010

Dungeness BO, two individuals, 28th August.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 12th August.

 

St. Margaret’s-at-Cliffe, single bird, 1st June.

2009

Dungeness, three individuals, 14th May.

 

Dungeness, male bird, 13th May.

 

Sandwich Bay, two birds, 13th May.

2008

Warden Point, Sheppey, 1st-2nd September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 30th August.

 

Dungeness BO, single bird, 25th August.

2006

Bockhill, one singing male, 29th May.

 

Dungeness BO, single bird, 25th May.

2004

Dungeness BO, single bird, 16th August.

 

Abbotscliffe, single bird, 15th August.

2003

Samphire Hoe, single bird, 28th August.

1999

Grain, single bird, 29th August.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 24th August.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 16th August.

 

Dungeness, trapping area, second bird, 11th June.

 

Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 11th June.

 

Sandwich Bay, three birds, 19th May.

 

Dungeness, singing male, 19th May.

1997

Weirton Hill Farm, single bird, 14th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 6th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 13th August.

 

Leysdown, Sheppey, single bird, 10th August.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 10th August.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 7th August.

1996

North Foreland, a second bird, 21st September.

 

North Foreland, single bird, 20th-21st September.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 8th-10th September.

 

Gazen Salts, Sandwich, single bird, 6th September.

1995

Foreness, another single bird, 23rd August.

 

Foreness, single bird, 19th August.

 

Swalecliffe, single bird, 20th May.

1994

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 14th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 7th September.

 

Bishopstone, single bird, 25th August.

 

St. Peter’s, single bird, 22nd August.

 

Foreness, single bird, 2nd June.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 25th May.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 18th May.

1993

Reculver, two birds, 14th September.

 

Minnis Bay, single bird, 6th September.

 

Western Heights, Dover, single bird, 1st September.

1992

Grain, single bird, 26th September.

 

Shuart, single bird, 21st August.

 

Minnis Bay, single bird, 20th August.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 20th August.

 

Stodmarsh, single bird, 18th August.

1991

Warden Point, Sheppey, single bird, 2nd-3rd September.

 

Grain, single bird, 1st September.

 

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 26th August.

 

Langdon, male in song, 6th July.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 31st May.

1990

Allhallows, single bird, 2nd September.

 

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 28th August.

 

Foreness, single bird, 27th August.

 

Foreness, single bird, 30th May.

1989

Foreness, one first-year bird, 5th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, one first-year bird, 3rd September.

 

Dungeness, two first-year birds, 2nd September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 9th August.

1988

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 1st October.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 6th September.

 

Foreness, single bird, 24th May.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 13th May.

 

Foreness, single bird, 12th May.

1987

Foreness, single bird, 23rd September.

 

Warden Point, Sheppey, single bird, 1st September.

 

Foreness, another bird, 1st September.

 

Foreness, single bird, 30th August.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 30th August.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 4th-5th August.

 

Foreness, single bird, 27th May.

1986

Sandwich Bay, another bird trapped, 13th August.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 12th August.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 10th June.

1985

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 11th September remaining until 25th.

 

Margate, single bird, 29th-30th August.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 17th August.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 18th June.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 26th May.

1984

Dungeness, single bird, 28th September.

 

Margate, single bird, 21st-28th September.

 

Foreness, single bird, 18th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 6th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 4th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 2nd September.

 

Margate, single bird, 18th August.

 

Margate, single bird, 11th August.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 11th August.

 

Lympne, single bird, 21st July.

 

Foreness, single bird, June 3rd.

 

Dengemarsh, single bird, 28th May.

 

Dungeness, two birds, 27th-28th May.

 

Margate, two birds, 25th May.

 

Margate, single bird, 23rd May.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd May.

1983

Foreness, nine individuals, 9th August until 26th September.

 

Margate, six individuals, 4th August until 24th September.

 

Dungeness, second bird trapped, 7th September.

 

St. Margaret’s, single bird, 31st August.

 

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 30th August, remaining until 7th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 30th August.

 

Northdown Park, Margate, single bird, 27th August.

 

Stodmarsh, single bird, 14th August.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 30th July.

 

Margate, single bird, 18th June.

 

Foreness, single bird, 6th May.

1982

Near Sandwich, single bird, found dead 24th September.

 

St. Margaret’s, single bird, 24th September.

 

Foreness, three birds, 1st-20th September.

 

Margate, two birds, 29th August.

 

Margate, single bird, 1st August.

 

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 1st August.

1981

Sandwich Bay, second bird, 6th September.

 

Foreness, single bird, 2nd-6th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 28th August until 6th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 31st August.

 

Dartford Marsh, single bird, 14th August.

 

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 9th August.

 

Sandwich Bay, singing male, 2nd June.

1980

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 21st September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 14th-15th June.

 

Sandwich Bay, bird in song, 14th May.

1979

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 27th October.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 23rd September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 23rd September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 16th September.

 

Margate, single bird, 6th-7th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 1st September.

 

Dungeness, single bird trapped on 20th August, remained until 25th.

 

Upstreet, male singing, 1st July.

 

In North, male singing, 8th-10th May.

1978

St. Margaret’s, single bird, 19th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 27th May.

1977

Sandwich Bay, single bird was trapped, 23rd September.

 

Dungeness, one bird, 27th August.

 

Dungeness, two birds, 23rd August.

 

Sandwich Bay, one of two birds was trapped on 21st August, being retrapped on 26th. The second bird was trapped on 24th and never seen again.        

 

Dungeness, two birds, 21st August.

 

Dungeness, four birds, 20th August.

 

Shellness, Sheppey, single bird, 20th-21st August.

 

Foreness Point, single bird, 17th August.

 

Dungeness, two singles, 14th-19th August.

 

Richborough Power Station, singing male, 22nd May, with possibly the same bird seen again at nearby Stonelees on 29th.

1976

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 30th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 1st September.

 

Northward Hill, single bird seen and heard, 21st May.

1975

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd September.

 

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 3rd September. This, or the previous days bird, remained in the area until 16th.

 

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 2nd September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 25th August.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 24th August.

 

Whitstable, single bird seen and heard singing, 14th-17th June.

 

Dungeness, two birds trapped, 17th May.

1974 Dungeness, singled bird trapped, 16th September.
  Dungeness, singled bird trapped, 30th August.
1973

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 24th September.

 

Worth village, single bird seen, 16th August.

 

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 26th May.

1972

Sandwich Bay, first-year bird trapped, 11th September.

 

Shorne, single bird, 7th September.

1971

Sandwich Bay BO, two birds, one of which was trapped, 10th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 24th August.

 

Sandwich Bay BO, two birds, 21st August, with one remaining until the following day.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 12th August.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 28th May.

1970

Dungeness BO, a single bird trapped was the observatories 100,000th ringed bird, 8th October.

 

Sandwich Bay BO, single bird trapped, 6th September.

1968

Dungeness BO, single bird, 19th September.

 

Sandwich Bay BO, two birds, 15th September.

 

Dungeness BO, single bird, 11th August.

 

Sandwich Bay BO, single bird, 11th August.

 

Sandwich Bay BO, single bird, 8th August.

1967

Northward Hill, single bird, 8th October.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 9th September.

1966

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 18th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 17th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 26th August.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 22nd August.

1964

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 14th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 5th September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 1st September.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird trapped, 14th August.

1962

Sandwich Bay BO, single bird trapped, 22nd September.

 

Sandwich Bay BO, single bird, 4th May.

1961

Sandwich Bay BO, single bird trapped, 4th September.

1960

Dungeness, single bird, 16th–18th September.

 

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 21st May.

1959

Dungeness, single bird trapped, 25th September.

1956

Dungeness BO, single bird trapped lighthouse garden, 2nd September.

1954

Dungeness BO, single bird trapped, 2nd September.

1952

Benenden, single bird, 6th August.

1916

Dungeness, two birds, 12th September.

1903

Kentish Knock, single bird, 22nd September.

1848

Eythorne, near Dover, single bird shot, 15th June

No Longer Accepted

1907

King’s Wood, Chilham, single bird, spring (no exact date).

1902

Crockham Hill, Edenbridge, single bird shot, 15th May.

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